Edition 23: 2–10 August, 2024

ECSTATIC PEACE/A COUNTRY WITH FIVE STARS: SHORT FILMS BY IVA RADIVOJEVIĆ

Between Colors of I

United States
2013 — 8'29" / Color

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Synopsis

The protagonist is a traveling nomad. Exiled from his own land, he searches to find home in unknown places. Presented as a travelogue through Morocco, visual and aural experiences trigger the traveler's memory and associations with his past as he searches through personal and collective histories in an effort to decide who he wants to be.

Director Biography

Iva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between subarctic Alaska, Brooklyn and Lesbos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments {observations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages} which collage together to connect into a ruminating whole. The work circles around displacement and belonging, seeking to connect to the metaphysical or the magical.

Director

Iva Radivojević